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  1. bbbart

    UNBROKEN’s Iconic Silver ST build

    Best looking ST wheels hands down. Looks almost like the Rohana RF1. Really nice
  2. bbbart

    Patriot ceramics k9ST..greetings from colorado

    Steven Adams, the gentleman with the current ST dyno record, mentioned Ford commissioned custom shocks from Fox for the Explorer ST. Need to dig it up somewhere but he's a credible source
  3. bbbart

    Patriot ceramics k9ST..greetings from colorado

    No, that will lower the value of our 20-24 models haha. Sounds like Nevada and Illinois have a lot of SOP's in common. Let's start with Ford Performance for all the suspenion goodies they made for their track-prepped ST with Fox shocks and aero please
  4. bbbart

    UNBROKEN’s Iconic Silver ST build

    Really wish I could have both but have to budget wisely, 21 just looks perfect... I'm just about to place a custom order for mag wheels so I could make it any spec and second guessing lol... Shouldn't be difficult to sell my 20 in. Classic5 V2's though.
  5. bbbart

    Patriot ceramics k9ST..greetings from colorado

    Welcome! Beautiful ride.
  6. bbbart

    UNBROKEN’s Iconic Silver ST build

    What are the best tire options you've found? Really like the aesthetic.
  7. bbbart

    Review: Steeda front and rear sway bars, Steeda tower brace and Eibach lowering springs installed

    I'll be in Miami from tomorrow till April 7 for work. It would be awesome to link up sometime. I'll dm closer to the day if things are looking smooth by the end of the week, I'm planning on renting a car for the last day so I should be able to drive up to you. After going over this for a good...
  8. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Thank you for that explanation. Definitely relate to the strategy of hammering the brakes on corner entry and hammering on the way out with the AWD. I will make a serious effort to rent a similar vehicle to get some track experience. It would suck building this car for track use and not being...
  9. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Totally agree and I definitely have a lifetime of things to learn on a track. The art of balancing a car during sustained, WOT performance is completely new to me. It definitely sounds like I'm way over my head here but after getting to know the ST and having years of experience with similarly...
  10. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Might be tough to find a track, but I'm trying to assess the risk of doing it moreso than committing to that as a goal. The car was definitely not designed to do it, there's no examples to follow, and I've never raced so just making sure I learn as much as possible about the car and listening to...
  11. bbbart

    Review: Steeda front and rear sway bars, Steeda tower brace and Eibach lowering springs installed

    Thank you very much for the explanation. I will have to do a deep dive on the characteristics of airlift suspension vs coilovers to see if it's worth it to completely switch over. Many YouTube videos fiercely defend airlift as a track-capable suspension but in a body-roll prone platform like...
  12. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Shouldn't be too long. Another member has an ST without a sunroof on JRZ RS 3 Pro coilovers that would be perfect for this kind of driving. The absolute best setup for grip and cornering performance.
  13. bbbart

    Review: Steeda front and rear sway bars, Steeda tower brace and Eibach lowering springs installed

    That's great info, thanks. Would running a stiffer front sway bar benefit an explorer with air suspension on sticky tires? I have a lot of nose dive and body roll during the initial turn-in on a hard corner and would like to lower that as much as possible while keeping the air suspension...
  14. bbbart

    Thermal R&D 3” exhaust

    Meant to say it's cheaper to install them altogether than the exhaust now and downpipes later. Late night text lol
  15. bbbart

    Thermal R&D 3” exhaust

    Downpipes will help, might as well get them both to reduce overall labor cost. https://youtube.com/shorts/oxvH7QN6M4Y?si=WOBw099Twn0qEKE4
  16. bbbart

    FS Whoosh diff bolt, trans mount insert, JXB driveshaft carrier

    Thank you very much.
  17. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Sounds about right. I will look into it closer to the completion date. The brakes are great but the air suspension will never outperform coils; hoping we can tune it to perform better without overstressing the bags. If we can get them to be at a high PSI while lowered, it should reduce the...
  18. bbbart

    Cold air intakes 25 ST

    Wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to make sure the warranties expire before letting people tune these after all the diff bolt failures they had to replace. Saving pennies ended up costing them a lot dollars.
  19. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    Ideally both. I'm being told I'm getting ahead of myself and should focus on suspension before tires though. I don't mind it being slow for a track car, but want to handle reasonably well and increase the G-force by 0.1-0.2 on a skidpad test without switching from the air suspension to...
  20. bbbart

    Best tires and rim size for racing

    It has two Xona 5451S turbos. The plan is to downsize to 4951S. Not trying to ever run a tune higher than 825whp | 825lb/ft until someone else pushes the engine further and finds the limit though so I was hoping to get the flattest power curve that could make 800whp reliably...


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